UMBC's college access/readiness program, Path Before Me, is actively recruiting Spring volunteers.  We hope to have students placed in site schools by the end of February.  Volunteers will work in city schools, providing "college coaching" to high school juniors. 

Last semester, we had 13 student volunteers, who held over 100 individual coaching sessions with our high school students. Our youth feedback has been great--so we are excited for this Spring!

If you, or anyone you know is interested--or if you have questions--please email me at afrank3@umbc.edu. 

To begin tutoring, you will need to register through the Shriver Center.

The Cultural Resources Division of Anne Arundel County, Maryland and the Lost Towns Project are currently recruiting for Spring and Summer interns for the archaeology internship program. Please direct any questions to PZSing23@aacounty.org.

Tziona NessAiver

INDS Capstone
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Fine Arts 002
10:00 – 11:15 a.m.

For Tziona's capstone her goal was to "develop a method to turn electroencephalogram (EEG) brainwaves into sound and test if listeners can learn to understand the informational content."

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 33rd ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE IN THE HUMANITIES

Intersectionalities/Interconnections/Liminalities

The English Department is home to a productive, award-winning faculty whose members pursue both research and creative activity across the many diverse fields of English today. In celebrating that work, we would like to acknowledge some of our recent accomplishments:

• In December, Jessica Berman presented the closing keynote address entitled, “The Case for a Transnational Critical Optic, Now,” to the Literature and the World: Theories, Concepts, Debates Symposium at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. In January, she also presided at a roundtable on “Memory and the Archive” at the Modern Language Association Convention in New York.
• Margie Burns has had a proposal accepted for “The Female Precariat” panel at Northeast Modern Language Association Convention in April. Her paper is titled, “Then and now: the adjunct phenomenon, updated, 19[91] – now.” Her article on Jane Austen’s Susan will appear in Persuasions 2017 in May 2018.
• Mike Fallon’s poem, “The Music of What Happens,” was accepted for publication by Crosswinds Poetry Journal.
• Jean Fernandez gave a lecture entitled, “Revisiting the Bronte Sisters,” in honor of their bicentennial anniversary, at Montgomery College in December as part of their Adults Seeking Knowledge guest lecture series.
• Shane Moritz’s poem, “Spring,” was accepted for publication in Ramingo’s Porch and his poem, “Whoop,” was accepted for publication in the April 2018 issue of Baltimore Style.

Congratulations on these incredible accomplishments—just a small sampling of the innovative and important work that our faculty produce throughout the year. We certainly look forward to seeing what the English Department faculty will do next.

Roundtable on “Interventions” in Critical Feminist Theory

Panel on Critical Feminist Studies and the Possibilities for Social Justice Interventions

"A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions as a Punishment for the Poor"

Alexes Harris
Professor of Sociology, University of Washington

Reducing Harm via Participatory Theatre: A Two-Part Workshop